Echocardiography

Some of those tests may include an Echocardiography, a test that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of you; this picture shows how well the heart is working and its shape and size, a Chest X Ray a test that shows whether your heart is enlarged and whether or not fluid is building up in…

When you’re suffering with the health and improper functioning of your heart, it is important to do your own research and find a cardiologist who’s right for you immediately. The overall quality , excellence in this field and reputation of cardiac care of the hospital where they practice is often a good benchmark for cardiologists. When you are looking for best Cardiologist, experience and reputation does matter. The more experience a cardiologist has with a condition or procedure, the best your…

A few of these are laboratory studies, chest radiography and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), echocardiography, electrocardiography, and cardiac catherization. Common laboratory tests are CBC (complete blood count), biochemical profile, iron studies, and blood gas assessments. The imaging studies can show the congenital heart defects and pulmonary changes…

improved over the course of 10 days, but a daily spike in temperature persisted despite ketorolac treatment. The patient was asymptomatic without dyspnea or chest pain, and saturation rate was over 98% but a Chest x-ray showed mild pleural effusion. Echocardiography ruled out cardiological involvement. Other etiologies of seconday fever such as phebitis and urinary tract infections were ruled out and serial blood cultures were negative After 21 days of cefotaxime treatment with continuing fever…

Premature Ventricular Contractions (Pvcs) Overview- Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are abnormal, extra heart-rates that initiate in ventricles, one of your heart's two lower pumping chambers. These additional pulsates disturb your normal heart musicality, in some cases making you feel a flip-flop or skipped beat in your chest. Premature ventricular contractions are extremely normal, mainly it occurs in most of the people at some time. If you are infected by ventricular constrictions,…

acute MI _____ and underwent three vessel coronary artery bypass grafting at that time. He states he had a cardiac catheterization elsewhere about four years ago and they did not perform any intervention at that time. He has had a transthoracic echocardiography and stress nuclear imaging test that has shown EF of 40%. His last nuclear imaging test showed only mild inferior ischemia and fixed LAD infarct 01/04/2017. The patient was admitted to Granville Hospital 01/11/2017 with heart…

I interviewed a cardiologist named Dr. Frank Amico he was very helpful in answering my questions about what it takes to be a cardiologist and what he loves about his job. I learned that he spent a total of twelve years and $228,000 on his schooling after high school. The twelve years included four years of an undergraduate degree, four years of medical school and eight years at his residency, when the minimum is three years. He spent so much time in his residency learning everything there was…

On Saturday, February 27, the American University in Cairo (AUC) student, Omar Khaled, passed away after a common injury during an American Football game between the AUC Titans and the Cairo Bears. The 18 years-old freshman student, who was known between his fellows as the ‘Jumbo’, was an offensive guard at the AUC Titans. During the first few minutes of the game, Khaled got hit in the chest by his opponent’s helmet as it made him have difficulty in breathing. According to Omar Arafa, a member…

pressure in the left ventricle and increase in volume load (Alkema, Spitzer, Soliman, 2016, p. 257). Both, increased pressure and volume load are signs unknown to the patient. The doctor can diagnose these signs with certain tests, such as, an Echocardiography which is the most popular method of diagnosis. There are also other tests that can be useful. A few examples are the cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), and a computed tomography (CT), which are both becoming more increasingly used in…

As discussed by David, Andrew, Michael, & Jerrold (2007) and Tiruvoipati & Peek (2008) the mode of ECMO Therapy chosen for a patient is tailored to the type of treatment and goal you are trying to accomplish. In the Venovenous mode (VV mode) it normally treats respiratory failure and the Venoarterial mode (VA mode) treat cardiorespiratory failure.4-5 In figure 1 below it shows the difference between Venoarterial and Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Venoarterial ECMO Venovenous…